Public schools have failed miserably, which has spawned the need for private schools, charter schools, and home schooling. Please dont pretend the answer is to throw more money into a failing public school system.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...7th-year-in-a-row_us_5722273ee4b0b49df6aa5aaa
For the seventh consecutive year, Urban Prep Charter Academy is keeping it one hundred.
Every senior at the predominantly black, all-boys charter school in Chicago has committed to a four-year college or university. At the school’s three campuses combined, the class of 2016 has been admitted to more than 220 schools.
“It’s a great day,” Rudolph Long, who’s attending Hampton University, told CBS Chicago on Urban Prep’s college signing day on Tuesday. “I feel great. We all made it. We all come from good environments so to see us all going to college is nice.”
Parents have a choice. Keep sending their kids to schools that are far too often just penal preparatory academies, or find an alternative that will give their kids a fighting chance.
In some cases it is questionable teachers but not in most cases. Hell...public schoopl teachers are the true unsung heroes in this country. They go into some of the most god-awful environments knowing they dont stand much of a chance to actually teach, let alone make a difference in kids lives, yet they try. In some cases they get their asses beat for attempting to actually teach classes.
You want change? Kill the unions. Kill the teachers associations. Kill the state and fed level departments of education. Commit to actually TEACHING an then make school an opportunity but a privilege and not a right. Little Johnny acts up, little Johnny's ass is gone. Stop insisting the schools be infected by ****heads that are more invested in making life miserable than learning. Insist parents step up and when parents come to school whining about little Johnny's grades, kick their parents ass out of the school and tell them to step up and stop blaming the teacher. You know what else is needed? Shop. Woodshop...metal shop...autoshop...tech classes. Not every kid is destined for college and that is fine. Give them a better path to success...maybe with mentoring and job shadowing programs.
OK...and now the holistic part. You CANT just work to make schools more successful without investing in better economic opportunities for them once they ARE successful. So in some areas we need renewal and that will provide jobs. We need manufacturing jobs. We need an investment in the trades. We need investment in the home communities to help them become more successful which ALSO means we need better law enforcement and yep...more prisons because when little Johnny takes the thug route, **** him, and I dont care what his race or ethnic background is.
Better schools isnt going to solve the problem. It takes a total investment. That requires government and private sector investment. THAT is something worth going into reasonable debt over.